second call for feedback on Naiad design

[Matthew Fulmer]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:38PM -0800, Craig Latta wrote:
> 
>  > It's not the filesystem access that is slow. It is that the
>  > current source code storage format reads the file character by
>  > character, looking for the terminating !, and doing utf-8
>  > conversion the whole way. 95% of the time in a MC snapshot is
>  > spent in testing the source file characters for the terminating
>  > ! character. I imagine you do much more in bulk rather than
>  > character by character. The format of the .sources file is
>  > horrible for access speed.
> 
>       Oh, right! I forgot about that. :)  Yeah, should be quite a bit 
> faster, I'm just answering String objects that are sitting in memory. 
> The measurements will be interesting.
> 
>       But again, I take it from your comment that you're actually 
> finding the speed of the traditional setup to be a problem? If so, then 
> yeah, it'd make a good marketing point.

It's by far the biggest bottleneck in MC speed. Try viewing
changes on the Morphic package. It takes about 3 minutes on a
fast machine, and 99.6% of the time is source code lookup, last
time I measured Morphic

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